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Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on Deutschland 83: The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 Daily Telegraph review The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) What positive aspects of Deutschland 83 are highlighted in the reviews? The Guardian - "Martin is superbly played by Jonas Nay...It's a perfect moment in a near-perfect series". Daily Telegraph - “So far, so unremarkable, then. The pleasure came from the little details of life on the other side of the Iron Curtain… All this was extremely well done” 2) What criticisms are made of the show? Daily Telegraph - "This is a period drama that sometimes lacks drama but makes up for it with a deep sense of period". Guardian: "The show lost half its viewers on the last episode in Germany." 3) Why did the Telegraph suggest that Deutschland 83 did the 'period' aspect of 'period drama' so well? "The period feel w...

1) What does Marxism suggest regarding power in society? Their is one ruling elite class which influence and control over society through the media in order to maintain control and power. Marx saw two structures of society which actively engage in this type of social control. Repressive Structures, those that threaten to act with force if rules are not upheld (The army and police). Ideological structures, those that act to construct the values and ideologies which govern the way people behave (schools and religion). 2) Why is The Apprentice a good example of the media reinforcing capitalist values and ideologies? The fact that Sugar has all the power reinforces the 'superior' position of the capitalist elite. He has power as he has used the system to create wealth and he is shown using this power to provide a livelihood for the winner of the competition. Teamwork and adventurous ideas in business are rewarded by the success within the show and can be seen to be part of t...

Mail Online review of Capital 1) Re-read the Mail Online review of Capital. Why does it suggest that Capital features a left-wing ideology? The review mentions various of things which support this left wing ideology from references to Jeremy Corbyn to how the show represents and empowers the working class. Capital is seen to show different ethnic working class groups who are seen to be working hard in their lives to support themselves or their family. An example being Quentina, an immigrant from Africa who works illegally and extremely hard to support herself and earn a living. This empowerment and representation of the working class and immigration supports the left wing ideologies of immigration and how it immigration can how they positives and  goes against the stereotypes of immigrants leeching off the government through benefits. 2) Choose three quotes from the review that are particularly critical of Capital and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree with the critic...

Notes from class (episode 1) 1) Watch episodes two and three of  Capital  and write a 50-word summary of each. Episode 2; to conclude the second episode of Capital,  Arabella returns after Christmas and seems less concerned about Matya's presence than Roger's decreased bonus, even when Roger takes the nanny to a charity auction and spends almost two thousand pounds on a picture for her. Quentina is taken to a detention centre to await deportation whilst D.I. Mill calls an ineffectual meeting regarding the postcards as now dead rats are being pushed through letter boxes instead . Four months later Petunia dies and daughter Mary calls in quarrelling Polish builders Piotr and Bogdan to renovate the house, Bogdan making a spectacular discovery. Ahmed and is family are not happy when his mother suddenly arrives from Karachi but worse is to come as they are all arrested by armed police. Episode 3; to conlude episode three, a s the police investigation into the 'We W...

To what extent do the representations in Capital reflect the concerns of modern 21st century London life? [25 marks] Capital presents a variety of different representations in terms of issues that the audience are able to relate to such as gender, ethnicity, family and immigrants. Within the first couple of scenes, representations of family and ethnicity are already presented; the first relatable representation is of a Pakistani family who own a corner shop, and they are mistaken for being Indians, ironically by of the main characters who is a white lady; this suggests white people are uneducated when it comes to different ethnicity’s and the stereotype of an Asian family who work together to maintain a shop is presented. However, the typical stereotype of a bad-tempered shop keeper is defied; when Rogers wife comes in to ask if they had any coriander, he kindly offered a free bunch to her without expecting anything in return. This presents them to be very respectful and challenges...